After having a discussion with a former school board member for one of the towns in the southern part of the state, they explained to me the reason school's start before Labor Day, is to make room for the required Teacher Work Shops during the school year, where they have to close the schools for those days. I do know a town in Southern, NH about 10 maybe, 15 years ago now, had a citizen’s petition to stop the schools in that town from starting before Labor Day. They got the required signatures to get it on the School Ballot and the voters passed it. The school board honored it for one year then went back to having schools start before Labor Day again.
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